wow, there was a 4 studio bidding war to get rights to make a movie based on the video game? Maybe they can get Michael Bay to direct, and Bruce Willis/Morgan Freeman to star as buddies who blow up asteroids. Shia can be the guy in the flying saucer.

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What did Universal actually pay for here? A trademark and a spinning 2D triangle? If for some incomprehensible reason this movie really needs to get made, just call it "Deadly Asteroids!!!" to avoid trademark infringement and make the spaceship a rhombus. Everyone will get the reference, anyway, and you can take all your employees out to Taco Bell with the money you saved.

Or better yet, make a Qbert movie. There's a story that needs to be told!

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This is kind of baffling. There's no plot and nothing to steal. All you get for this is the ability, I guess, to say "based on the videogame". I don't even see how anyone could be sued for making a movie about someone who gets trapped in an asteroid field and has to shoot their way out, even if they called it "Asteroids".

This is kind of baffling. There's no plot and nothing to steal. All you get for this is the ability, I guess, to say "based on the videogame". I don't even see how anyone could be sued for making a movie about someone who gets trapped in an asteroid field and has to shoot their way out, even if they called it "Asteroids".

Earth's last stand against a never ending horde of alien attackers is at the asteroid belt. They keep swarming around and fighting the aliens through the asteroids, but our guys are just too smart for them since we can think 3 dimensionally.

If the producers can convince Adm. Adama (EJO) to star in it, I might actually go see it.

Intrigued by the prospect, IGN exclusively quizzed producer Lornezo di Bonaventura on the subject while he was visiting London to publicize G.I. Joe, and he was extremely forthcoming on the subject. "It's funny because people say there's nothing in the game, but that's not entirely right" he explained. "I was attracted to Asteroids, plain and simple, because I think what it tells you is that there's going to be this big thing in space."

"We've crafted a really strong, deep mythology for the thing. Without divulging too much about it, it's two lead characters - two brothers - who have to go through a seminal experience to figure out their relationship, against this huge backdrop."

for some reason I cannot stop chuckling over that last bit.

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Intrigued by the prospect, IGN exclusively quizzed producer Lornezo di Bonaventura on the subject while he was visiting London to publicize G.I. Joe, and he was extremely forthcoming on the subject. "It's funny because people say there's nothing in the game, but that's not entirely right" he explained. "I was attracted to Asteroids, plain and simple, because I think what it tells you is that there's going to be this big thing in space."

"We've crafted a really strong, deep mythology for the thing. Without divulging too much about it, it's two lead characters - two brothers - who have to go through a seminal experience to figure out their relationship, against this huge backdrop."

for some reason I cannot stop chuckling over that last bit.

"seminal" doesn't mean what you think it means. Stop chuckling.

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It was this moment that took the movie from being a little ho-hum to “holy shit, did that shark just eat a plane!?”